At present I write mostly in Russian: /ru/
Translations from Russian:
- Erwin Schrödinger and Negative Entropy. doi:10.20944/preprints202509.1729.v1
- A critique of the metaphor of negative entropy. Entropy as disorder in the 19th century. Schrödinger: Order, disorder and entropy. Discussion: Order and disorder. Understanding chemical reactions.
- Clausius Inequality in Classical Thermodynamics. Russ. J. Phys. Chem. 100, N 3, 309–316 (2026). Open Access Paper by Springer
- Critique of Clifford Truesdell’s views about classical thermodynamics. Non-equilibrium states in Clausius inequality. Development of non-equilibrium thermodynamics. Thermodynamics: classical or phenomenological?
- Clausius Inequality in Philosophy and History of Physics. doi:10.20944/preprints202510.0920.v1
- Critique of Uffink’s paper ‘Bluff your way in the second law of thermodynamics‘. Temperature and temperature field in 19th century physics. Continuum mechanics and Clausius Inequality. Physics and mathematics in thermodynamics.
- The Problem of Coordination: Entropy as a Physical Quantity in Classical Thermodynamics. doi:10.20944/preprints202511.0386.v1
- Internal energy and entropy as physical properties. Calorimetry. Caloric equation of state. Enthalpy and heat capacity at constant pressure. Thermodynamic properties of pure substances. What is entropy?
- Burning Candle and Levels of Organization. doi:10.20944/preprints202603.0037.v1
- Physics, Mathematics and World. Theory and Experiment in Physics. Research Program as Extrapolationism. Arrows of Explanation. Properties of a Substance from Molecular Constants. Equations of Continuum Mechanics from Statistical Mechanics. Emergence.
- How does a Brownian Particle move when Nobody Measures its Position? doi:10.2139/ssrn.6803159
- Stochastic Langevin’s equation. Motion of a Brownian Particle Through the Eyes of a Mathematician and a Physicist. Random Variable and the World. Random Variable and Quantum Mechanics
- More at ResearchGate
My book in Russian ‘Consciousness and Virtual World Theory‘: The study of consciousness in neurophysiology. The history of the virtual world theory. Discussing perceptions in narrative. Hard problems. Consciousness and experimental science.
Ongoing translation of my book ‘Understanding Entropy in Light of a Candle‘: Classical thermodynamics. Statistical mechanics. What does physics say? Physics, mathematics and the world.
For this blog – Content: Philosophy. Biology. Physics. History. Misc.
Thermodynamics
- Entropy and Miscibility Gap: Tutorial for Biologists: Simple regular solution as an example. In an adiabatically isolated system, the increase of the entropy corresponds to the formation of two phases from a homogeneous mixture.
- Thermodynamics: A Dynamical Systems Approach: A review of Haddad, Chellaboina, Nersesov. An interesting mixture of thermodynamics and system theory.
Posts that I recommend
- Hinshelwood, bacteria and biologists: Why biologists have ignored experiments of Hinshelwood? My thoughts and a list of papers that I have collected in search for an answer.
- DNA to represent proteins: Using van Fraassen’s approach to representation to analyze a paper – Barbieri, Is the cell a semiotic system?
- Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead: My thoughts after reading ‘The Grand Design‘ by Hawking and Mlodinow.
- Two Mathematicians in a Bunker and Pi: A thought experiment to discuss whether Pi exists. Physicalism vs. Platonism.
- Simulation Hypothesis and Simulation Technology: Discussing simulation hypothesis from the viewpoint of the current simulation technology. Technology falls short of needs in Matrix.
- Quantum Microbiology: My thoughts and doubts about paper by J. T. Trevors and L. Masson.
- Perception, Feedback, and Qualia: Could bacteria perceive? Comparison with a system with feedback and a robot. Does a bacterium already has qualia?